Overall-suspenders.



1. A; PATTERSON. OVERALL SUSPENDERS. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 23. 19M.

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tBVETEtALIJ-QUSPENDERED Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 11, 1911".

Application tiled. January 9.3, 191%. serial No. erases.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JAMns A. Parrnnson, a citizen of the United Eitates, residing at San Antonio, in the county of Renal and @tate of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Overall-Susponders, of which the following is a specilication.

lily invention relates to new and useful improvements in overall suspenders, and its object is primarily to provide overall suspenders of great strength and which will afford the wearer an increased freedom of movement and greater ease and comfort.

The object stated more specifically is to provide overall suspenders comprising the shoulder pieces of novel construction and arrangement in which pieces there are reinforced extremities united to elastic end portions, the extremities of the shoulder pieces being united by a web, preferably elastic, said web connecting the reinforced extremities of the shoulder pieces above the elastic ends of said pieces.

Finally the object of my invention is to provide a device of the character described that will be strong, durable, simple and efficient and comparatively easy to construct.

With these and various other objects in view, my invention has relation to certain novel features of the construction and use,

an example of which is described in the following specification, and is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the novel suspenders constituting my invention, the same being shown as seen from the rear.

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of the same, the section being taken upon the line a'm of Fig. l. I

Fig. 3 is a detail cross sectional view, the section being taken upon the line g -y of Fig. 1.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, wherein like reference characters designate similar parts in all the figures, the numeral 1 denotes a pair of. shoulder straps which will preferably be formed of such heavy canvas as is ordinarily employed to form overalls. Each of said shoulder straps will preferably be formed of a single piece of material folded along its outer edge to form a double lap united by a row of stitches 8, and twice folded at its inner edge topics a t i ret st my e t inned f to form a quadruple lap united by a row of stitches 9 as is more clearly shown in Fig. 3. To the rear extremity of each member 1, each fold of which extremity is doubled over as at 10, there is secured a strip of elastic webbing 3, which terminates in a button-hole member l formed of canvas, leather or some other suitable material. The end of strip 3 is inserted between the doubled folds 10 and united thereto by the stitching 8, 9 and ll.

Adjacent to their junctures with the part 3, the members 1 are connected by a piece of flexible webbing 5 preferably elastic in its nature. The extremities of the member 5 are each interposed between the doubly folded inner edges of the correlated member 1, and united thereto by the stitching 9 as clearly shown in 1 and 2.

At their front extremities the straps l are connected in the usual manner by buckles (3 to short straps 7 which may have an in tegral connection with the bib or front of the overalls.

By forming the rear extremities of the straps 1 of elastic material 3 and by connect ing the rear portions of said straps by the elastic member 5, the suspenders are given a flexibility that will allow them to stretch or contract according to the movement of the wearer, without unduly binding his shoulders when stretched or becoming unduly strained.

The invention is presented as including all such modifications and changes as properly come within the scope of the following claim.

What I claim is:

In overall suspenders, a pair of shoulder braces formed by doubling the material longitudinally and redoubling the two edges by folding the doubled material upwardly, a web connecting the shoulder braces, said web having its ends inserted in the redoubled edges of the braces and united thereto, and an elastic strip inserted in the rear end portion of each brace and united thereto.

lln testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES A. PATTERSON.

Witnesses:

W. H. War, G. U. S'rnoncir.

Washington, n. t. 

